Cosmic rays inside a dense molecular cloud were measured for the first time, helping scientists better understand how stars begin forming.

Where starlight doesn't reach, new things are born: For the first time, an international research team has directly measured ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has looked back in time to help explain the reionisation phase, which is one of the greatest mysteries in the cosmos. After a protracted era known as the cosmic ...

In 2002, when astronomers first detected cosmic gamma rays coming from the constellation Cygnus, they were surprised and perplexed. The region lacked the extreme electromagnetic fields that they ...

A dark, spider-shaped cloud of cosmic gas blocks out light from stars in a new image taken by a telescope in the Southern Hemisphere. The amazing photo, taken by a telescope at the European Southern ...

Astronomers using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have made the most accurate measurement of starlight in the universe and used it to establish the total amount of light from all of ...